A scary article from the New York Times.

Counterterrorism officials estimate that 10,000 to 15,000 Muslims living in Britain are supporters of Al Qaeda. Among that number, officials believe that as many as 600 men were trained in camps connected with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

British investigators say that identifying Islamic militants among the two million Muslims living here, about 4 percent of the population, is especially hard. The Muslim community here is the most diverse of any in Europe in terms of ethnic origins, culture, history, language, politics and class. More than 60 percent of the community comes not from North African or Gulf Arab countries, but from countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.

Before Sept. 11, 2001, British officials monitored radical Islamists but generally stopped short of arresting or extraditing them. After Sept. 11, the government passed legislation that allowed indefinite detention of terrorism suspects. But last year, it was overturned by Britain's highest court, the Law Lords, as a violation of human rights law.

The short version: Islamists sawing off your head while you're flipping through the law books trying to figure out how to work this.

The down side of tolerance. But maybe unavoidable, if we are not to become what we are opposing. I know how Roosevelt responded to a similar problem during WWII, although he acted on much less threat than the British are under. NO local Japanese committed any acts of sabotage or terror as far as I know.

Anybody got some more acceptable answers?

Anyone getting ready to pop up with "If Blair pulls out of Iraq, all those 10,000 will suddenly become nice, peaceful Muslims again." can just sit back down.